Many of the details about the terrifying ordeal thatKim Kardashian(then Kim Kardashian West) went through when she wasrobbed in Parison Oct. 3, 2016, have been revealed since that day. However, there are still plenty of lingering questions about the situation even now: How did Kim deal with the aftermath? Were her kids aware? How did her nowex-husband Kanye Westreact?
Here are the answers to many of the questions surrounding the scary events that unfolded in Paris.
What happened, in Kim’s words
Kim’sharrowing first-hand account of the crimewas revealed in police reports she filed to French authorities around 4:30 a.m. on Oct. 3, 2016, mere hours after she escaped from her restraints and called for help.
According to French newspaperLe Journal du Dimanche, she explained in the report that she returned to her hotel with her sisterKourtney Kardashianand stylistSimone Harouche. She told police that Kourtney and her assistant Stephanie Sheppard changed clothes as they prepared for a night out, but she wasn’t joining them and went upstairs to work on her computer.
“I heard a noise at the door, like footsteps, and I shouted, asking, ‘Who’s there?'” she said, according to the report. “No one answered. I called my bodyguard at 2:56 a.m. Through the door, I saw two people arrive, plus the night man who was tied up.”
The two men apparently had police paraphernalia and one individual wore ski goggles. “It’s the one with the ski goggles who stayed with me,” she said, according to the report. “He demanded with a strong French accent, my ring. It was on the bedside table. It’s worth $4 million.… I told him that I didn’t know, he took out a gun and I showed him the ring.”
“They grabbed me and took me into the hallway,” she continued. “I was wearing a bathrobe, naked underneath. Then we went in the room again and they pushed me on the bed. And, it was this time, they tied me up with plastic cables and taped my hands, then they put tape over my mouth and my legs.”
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Kim also reportedly described in detail what had been taken from her room: two diamond Cartier bracelets, a gold and diamond Jacob necklace, Lorraine Schwartz diamond earrings, a gold Rolex and other items. “I think they robbed me of 5 million dollars,” she said. “Then they left on the run.”
Season 13 ofKeeping Up with the Kardashianscovered the incident, featuring the reality starpublicly opening upabout the ordeal for the first time.
“They ask for money. I said I don’t have any money,” she told her sisters in the season’s second episode. “They dragged me out on to the hallway on top of the stairs. That’s when I saw the gun clear, like clear as day. I was kind of looking at the gun, looking down back at the stairs.”
“I was like; ‘I have a split second in my mind to make this quick decision,'” Kim recalled. “Am I going to run down the stairs and either be shot in the back? It makes me so upset to think about it. Either they’re going to shoot me in the back, or if I make it and they don’t, if the elevator does not open in time, or the stairs are locked, then like I’m f—ed. There’s no way out.”
Why wasn’t her bodyguard there?
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The No. 1 question that seemed to be on everyone’s mind after reports of the star’s terrifying ordeal broke seemed to be:Where was her (seemingly omnipresent) bodyguard when it happened?
He waslooking after Kim’s sisters, Kourtney and Kendall, as they hit the town in Paris: “It wouldn’t be that strange for Pascal to be dispatched to be with Kourtney or the other family members once Kim was ‘safely’ in her residence,” a source close to the family told PEOPLE. “And he regularly provides security for the whole family — not just Kim.”
Thoughthere isn’t much securityon site at the hotel — “As I recall, there’s a receptionist downstairs who buzzes you through the door in the courtyard and a nightman,” a former guest told PEOPLE — Kim felt safe at theNo Address Hotel, especially since her husband at the time had maintained a semi-permanent residence there since at least 2011.
What happened to her bodyguard?
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In the days following the robbery, questions arose surrounding Kim’s lack of security …andthe fate of family bodyguard Duvier. While a sourcetold PEOPLEthe Spain-born German bodyguard continued to work for them, they added that Duvier “isn’t irreplaceable.”
“The family really likes him, but he is not a family member,” said the insider. “Kanye is evaluating his family’s needs. He is ultimately the one who decides what happens with Pascal.”
“Pascal no longer works for Kim and Kanye, but he wasn’t fired,” a source told PEOPLE. “He instead reassigned himself to another family for professional reasons. Pascal thought that he did let down Kim and didn’t do his job properly in Paris. They all agreed that it was better for Kim and Kanye to hire a completely new security team.”
Did she beef up her security team after the incident?
A source close to the family revealed that Kim later had a “much heavier security team.”
“There will be a focus on security personal who aren’t in traditional clothing,” an insider told PEOPLE in the aftermath of the robbery. “There will be a lot more undercover security.”
The entire Kardashian-Jenner family also cut down on public appearances for a short time after Kim’s ordeal, as well as upped their own security.
“When something like this happens, everything changes,” a source told PEOPLE. “It changes the whole family — how and where they travel.”
How did the robbers get in?
The thieves’ first point of entrycame via the conciergeat the No Address, whom she described to police as eerily calm, according to a PEOPLE source. The insider said Kim told police the nightman was handcuffed when he opened the door to her apartment, and he was present for the entire incident and even engaged in a conversation with her.
How did she manage to escape?
Was anyone else in the hotel with her?
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“By the time [Kim] escaped, Simone had heard noises,” a source told PEOPLE. “She was downstairs and called Pascal not knowing what was going on, asking if everything was okay.”
How did the robbers know where she was?
It’s likely that the robbers, who were dressed as police officers when they broke into her room, hadbeen tailing Kim before the crime. Sources confirmed to PEOPLE that authorities believed that they may have posed as paparazzi in order to keep her under surveillance in the days leading up to the attack.
Kim herself also said she believed the perpetratorstracked her via social media.
“There was probably a group of guys that were following us the entire trip,” she said in an episode ofKUWTK.
“They had to have known we were leaving that day,” Kim added. “They had this window of opportunity and just went for it.”
Where were her kids?
Thankfully,NorthandSaintwere not involved in the terrifying incident. In fact, North was in New York, where she saw the Broadway musicalMatildahours before Kim was robbed.
“She was there with two other children, a nanny and a security person,” a rep for the Shubert Organization, which owns and operates Broadway theaters, told PEOPLE. “After the performance, they went backstage and met the children’s ensemble and [the actress who played] Matilda … The kids were excited to meet her.”
What’s the latest in the investigation?
Two more suspects, identified as Yunice A. and Florus H., were indicted for conspiracy, robbery, kidnapping and forceable confinement. A fourth suspect, Gary M., was identified as the younger brother of Kim’s Paris chauffeur. He was charged with assisting an armed robbery and kidnapping.
French authorities indicted anadditional six suspectsa few days later — five men and one woman, who were the more senior members of the suspects.
One was a man identified as Omar A., dubbed “Omar the Old,” whom authorities presumed was the “mastermind” behind the robbery. Investigators reportedly suspected it was his DNA that was found on the scene on adhesive tape and a plastic tie used to restrain Kim.
The first lead French police had wasa suspicious black carthat was seen in the early hours of Monday morning circling the No Address.
“The police were there at 10 a.m. Monday morning, waiting for the employees to come open the shop,” the employee at the firm’s headquarters said. “They were canvassing the street and went directly in a backroom and viewed the tapes. We gave them over.”
TheAssociated Press reportedin November 2021 that, of the 17 suspects the French police initially arrested in connection with the robbery,12 people were facing trial. Aomar Ait Khedache, who is believed to have orchestrated the heist, apologized to Kim in a letter written from his prison cell.
During an interview withVicein 2022, one of the suspects awaiting trial, Yunis Abbas, revealed that he didn’t feel guilty about the robbery: “Since she was throwing money away, I was there to collect it, and that was that. Guilty? No, I don’t care.”
What happened to her jewelry?
According to an expert, it’s “highly unlikely” that Kim will see any of the millions worth of jewelry that was stolen (including that$4 million ring) ever again.
As for the larger stones? “You have three choices,” he said. “You could either hold on to it, you can sell it to a buyer who is fine with it being stolen — which is very hard to find — or you can change the stones to make them unrecognizable. Anybody in the trade would be able to tell that these were Kim Kardashian’s diamonds.”
How did her family react?
“Kim’s family feels terrible about what happened to her,” a sourcetold PEOPLE, adding that West, “wanted to get to her as soon as he could.”
“He told her that he couldn’t care less about the jewelry; he’s just thankful that she’s okay,” said the insider.
During a season 3 episode ofThe Kardashiansin 2023, Kim and Jenner spoke about the robbery withKim admitting she was grateful it happened to herand not someone else, especially one of her sisters, because “they wouldn’t have been able to survive.”
“I don’t know anyone who could’ve handled what you did,” Jenner said. “I’m so proud of you, every single day, for the way that you live your life. I wish everybody knew how beautiful and delicious your heart is and they would never say one bad thing about you.”
How did Kim react?
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“Kim couldn’t wait to leave Paris,” a source told PEOPLE. “She gave a statement to the police and left right after. She got robbed of her jewelry but doesn’t care. She’s just happy to be alive.”
In the days directly following the heist, the reality star spent “all her time with kids and Kanye” and attempted to keep things “as normal as possible,” a source close to the family told PEOPLE.
Another source also said the star “barely slept.”
“She had no anxiety medication or alcoholic drinks, as she doesn’t do any of that stuff,” said the insider. “She’s just got comfort from being around her kids and friends. Her best friends rushed to her side: Jonathan Cheban, Simon Huck and La La Anthony. They have been her rocks.”
Multiple sources confirmed to PEOPLE that Kim was deeply shaken after the traumatic incident, and she went on to take a three-month hiatus from the public eye and social media. She eventually stepped back into the spotlight and returned to social media and being seen in public.
In early 2017, Kim traveled to Dubai and, on Jan. 13,made her first official public appearancesince the robbery at her longtime makeup artist Mario Dedivanovic’s Masterclass.
“Kim is starting to act more relaxed about public outings,” a sourcetold PEOPLE. “She still uses a bodyguard every day, but isn’t hiding. She lets herself be photographed. She seems more comfortable. She acted much more nervous right after the robbery.”
With that said, Kim did reveal on a June 2023 episode ofThe Kardashiansthatshe has not purchased any jewelry since the robbery.
“I haven’t really been about wearing jewelry, because when it was taken from me — I didn’t know I was ready for that experience of what that meant but I was — I was ready to give it up," she shared.
Did cutting back affect her income?
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After the robbery, Kim suspended all of her commitments indefinitely anda financial expert estimatedthat she would likely lose some substantial income — maybe more than “$1 million a month” in growth.
Celebrity financial adviser Samuel Rad told PEOPLE that Kim’s “overall brand is generating at least $1 million a month through just general posts, not including anything that’s specifically being contracted with companies,” which is separate from special event appearances where he estimated she was raking in between $200,000 to $300,000.
Rad also estimated that her personal, non-ad-related posts “are worth at least $20,000 a piece to her overall brand.”
He speculated, however, that “if Kim positions herself correctly [on her return], she can have a real blockbuster media score.”
What did it all mean forKUWTK?
E! initially halted production onKUWTKin the wake of the incident. “Kim’s well-being is our core focus right now,” a spokesperson from the network said in a statement to PEOPLE the week of the robbery. “No decision has been made as to when production will resume.”
While two sources told PEOPLE that filming continued with other family members, Kim didn’t resume filming until three weeks after the robbery.
During an appearance onThe Ellen DeGeneres Showin February 2017, Kim’s mom Kris said returning to the show helped her daughter heal from the “devastating” incident.
“When we started filming again and getting up and running, obviously Kim was around because we all practically live together on the same street,” she said. “We started filming and what was coming out of that was very therapeutic for her, I think — to just explain to us and walk us through.”
Khloé Kardashian also touched on the family’s decision to include the robbery on their reality show during an interview with PEOPLE Now in January 2017.
“Well, we are damned if we do and damned if we don’t,” she said. “We are so vulnerable and [have opened] up our lives so much in the past that interestingly enough, if we don’t show things fans get really angry — they feel as if that was taken away from them.”
“And I think for Kim, it was maybe therapeutic for her,” she added. “It’s also something that disgustingly happens to a lot of other people and we always come from a place of honesty.”
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